Overview of Microsoft HPC Pack 2016

03/27/2018

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Learn how to evaluate, set up, deploy, maintain, and submit jobs to a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster that is created by using Microsoft HPC Pack 2016. HPC Pack allows you to create and manage HPC clusters consisting of dedicated on-premises Windows or Linux compute nodes, part-time servers, workstation computers, and dedicated or on-demand compute resources that are deployed in Microsoft Azure.

Based on where the compute resources are located, Microsoft HPC Pack can be categorized into three cluster Modes:

- Deploy a cluster all in the cloud, on demand - Use your current scheduler or HPC Pack - Readily shift existing applications to the cloud - Use templates, scripts, and gallery images to deploy on demand

Microsoft also has cloud-born HPC Scheduler Service called Azure Batch. You can either use Azure Batch directly or you can use HPC Pack as your scheduler and have your job to burst to azure batch.